good ol' turntables

so i was rearranging my room today, and put on some records while i did it...and i was struck by how much i enjoy the sound i get from the turntable...anyone else feel like records are worth the extra effort to find/play?
-carly

ooo this is gonna start a heated debate, i find that sometimes vinyl sounds better, i guess it has this x factor, but theres no denying sometimes some audio that has been digitally remastered just kicks it!!! but digital is the way to go because it portable.

I miss being able to play my vinyl. I have some specialty stuff: direct-to-disc, 45 rpm 12 inchers, and the second-ever commercial digital recording.

However, I'm ready to move it all to digital because turntable technology stinks. I went through all the moving coil, moving magnet, S-shaped tonearms, straight tonearms, p-mounts, belt-drive, direct drive.

If I could find a nice direct-drive turntable with a tangentially-set, straight tonearm, I'd be happy. Oh wait, one that was less than $600. I love those museum pieces but, I just wanna play music.

My parents have a huge collection of Vinyl and there a certain sound to vinyl that makes it appealing. On a good record the sound quality can be superb, and of course there is the charm of seeing something actually spinning to listen to your music.

As I am reading this thread and admiring my stack o records...i was thinking of another fun side benefit to vinyl...the album art.
For example, I have a veruca salt album on vinyl, and the cover is a work of art in and of itself...the picture detail is far better than one gets on cd art.
Its interesitng, i dont care about cd covers at all, but record ones i cherish.
-carly

I still feel that vinyl has a sound that cannot be replicated, no matter how high-tech the quality is. I used to dj back in high school, and still have a bunch of old records...none of which I'd really do much with now, but good for nostalgia.

I think the point is not really that vinyl sounds better - that's very subjective - but you can't really argue that it doesn't sound different, clearly it does. That's why people, myself included, get so excited about it.

What's annoying is that I'm sure the majority of new vinyl released these days (with many very notable exceptions) is generally poorer than it used to be. That might just be me though.

I haven't grown up using Vinyl, and I only own about two vinyl records (plus lots more CDs) myself, but the sound is definitely very special... can't really define it. It's a bit like the difference between analog (studio) tapes and digital recording, I guess.

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